I've been a member @ HN for quite a while, but I usually just tend to focus in on security and privacy topics. One of my good friends is visiting, and we wanted to work on something challenging together. Both of us find privacy policies overly confusing and annoying, so we decided to tackle the problem. We built a tool that that crawls for privacy policies and uses guided machine learning to analyze them. We would love any feedback you have.
The site is pretty slow. I noticed that entering my site a second time didn't produce a result any faster than the first time. You might consider adding some caching.
We deliberated on the categories to include here and went with what we thought made the most sense and was the most clear in policies. A lot of policies don't make the distinction you describe =/
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I've been a member @ HN for quite a while, but I usually just tend to focus in on security and privacy topics. One of my good friends is visiting, and we wanted to work on something challenging together. Both of us find privacy policies overly confusing and annoying, so we decided to tackle the problem. We built a tool that that crawls for privacy policies and uses guided machine learning to analyze them. We would love any feedback you have.
It got the right answer for my company's website: http://www.privacyparrot.com/privacy-policy-for-identified.c...
The site is pretty slow. I noticed that entering my site a second time didn't produce a result any faster than the first time. You might consider adding some caching.
Glad we got it right. The site should be much faster now thanks to some tips folks have given here.. and turning off excessive debugging info.
Aside from my main points I put in my comment, what are the main criteria for flagging a website? The way I see it is:
1. If it sells your information to third parties, 2. if it shares your information with ad campaigns without directly selling it
Would you make any other criteria that users might want to be aware of?
We deliberated on the categories to include here and went with what we thought made the most sense and was the most clear in policies. A lot of policies don't make the distinction you describe =/